The persistent or recurrent inability to attain or maintain sufficient sexual excitement, causing personal distress. It may be expressed as lack of subjective excitement or a lack of genital (lubrication/swelling) or other somatic responses. FSAD is a type of Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD).

Female sexual arousal disorder is the condition of decreased, insufficient, or absent lubrication in females during sex, even despite normal sexual arousal. It is sometimes used in reference to, and sometimes differentiated from, hypoactive sexual desire disorder, which is the condition of decreased interest in sexual intercourse, sexual activity, and sexual contact in females. Loss of interest in sex occurs most commonly in women as they age and approach menopause.